Dangerous Quote by Deborah Harkness

“Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.”

— Hippocrates

“Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.”

— Hippocrates

“The smallest spark may here kindle into the greatest flame; because the materials are always prepared for it. The avidum genus auricularum, the gazing…

— Christopher Hitchens

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

— Publilius Syrus

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in…

— David Hume

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

— Plautus

“The history of science may be described as the history of the attempts, and the failures, of men "to see things as they are."…

— M.M. Pattison Muir

“Dupa cateva experimente simple, a devenit clar ca oamenii care abandonasera gravitatia fusesera, la randul lor, abandonati de ea.” (pag 143)”

— Jeanette Winterson

Experiment is a reflection of potentia

— Mak_786

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci